Keeping track of the flu

[deborahjross]

From a friend who's a public health professional:

If you are not already signed up with Flu Near You, please consider it. Each week they send you an email where you check off any symptoms of flu you had in the previous week. It takes only a few clicks, and you can view the incidence and location of symptoms in your area. This way they will have real-time information about flu epidemics.

Go to https://flunearyou.org/ to register.

Comments

Or you could ask google

[marcie lovell (from livejournal.com)]

http://www.google.org/flutrends/ -- Google's flu tracker is up to two weeks more current than the CDC.

[rosehelene.livejournal.com]

Or you could use Google...

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

If you were an epidemiologist, would you use Google for your data?

[rosehelene.livejournal.com]

From Google's page on flu trends: "We shared our preliminary results with the Epidemiology and Prevention Branch of the Influenza Division at CDC throughout the 2007-2008 flu season, and together we saw that our search-based flu estimates had a consistently strong correlation with real CDC surveillance data."

Given the volume of data that Google has, once it's been verified to be accurate (as it now has with the CDC).... sure! :)